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C. T. JOHNSON.

ELECTRIC HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 9. 1916.

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6. T. JOHNSON.

ELECTRIC HEATER.

APPLICATIOR FILED FEB. 9. I916.

Patented June 17, 1919.

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ELECTRIC HEATER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 9. 1916.

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CHARLES T. J OHN SON, OF DOVER, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DOVER MANUFACTURING CO.,

OF DOVER, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

ELECTRIC HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 17, 1919.

Application filed February 9, 1916. Serial No. 77,116.

To all whom it may concern: 9

Be it known that 1, CHARLES T. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, .residing at the city of Dover, county of Tuscarawas, and

State of Ohio, have invented new and use- 7 ful Improvements in Electric Heaters, of which the following is a specification. 4 I

My invention relates to an invertible support by means of which an electric smoothing iron may be adapted for use in heating a curling iron, for cooking various comestibles, and for various other heating purposes, the said iron being supported in a convenient position upside down and away from dangerous proximity to the surface of the table upon which it stands. My support may also be used asa convenient stand or rest for the iron in the idle intervals when the iron is used as such, for smoothing and laundrying fabrics, and for heating purposes generally.

The following is a full, clear, concise and exact description of my invention and of the manner or method in which it is intended to be used.

Figure 1 represents a side view, showing a smoothing iron from which the operating handle has been removed and the same supported from a table or platform.

Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1 with a platform indisupporting and heating articles of larger.

area than the surface of the iron.

Fig. 3 represents an end viewof the de- Vice shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 represents an end View, showing a smoothing iron in connection with a screen for supporting a piece of bread or other similar substance to be toasted above the smoothing surface of the iron.

Fig. 5 shows a modified form of the device for supporting a sad iron with a handle thereon.

Fig. 6 is an end view of the device shown in Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is an end view of the device showing a curling iron in position to be heated by the flat iron, the iron supporting members being removed.

Like parts are identified by the same reference numerals throughout the several provided withan ordinary electric heating coil, which isconnected with an electric for smoothing clothes or ordinary smooth-' ing purposes. When, however, the iron 1 is used for heating or cooking, it is supported above the base 4 by a plurality of standards 6, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive or by the higher'standards 6', as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the upper ends of the members 6 curve upward as shown in Fig. 4 at b and are inserted in aperture 7 provided therefor,

.while the respective sides 8 of the smoothing iron rest upon the angular bends or shoulders!) of said standards 6. The lower ends of said standards 6 are inserted through a plurality of registering apertures 10 in the platforms 11 and 12. When the brackets have been thus inserted in the iron and connected with the platforms lland 12 they are retained in place and the iron, platforms and standards all clamped together by in serting the central member 13, the upper end of which is connected with the flat iron by a screw thread 14 or in any convenient manner. The several platforms are thus connected by turning the head 15 until the parts are clamped sufliciently tight. 16 is a wire screen, one edge of which preferably engages the flange 17 of the flat iron,'whereby said screen is retained in place. 18 represents a piece of bread which is supported on the screen in position to be toasted. The

screen 16 may, if desired, be re laced by rarily connected together by the standards 6 and the central screw 13 and are also more permanentlyconnected together by a plurality of sheet metal clips 23 and an- I gular pieces 0, c, the upper and lower cured together by brazing or riveting to form a compact invertible stand, either top orbottom face of which may be used as a fiat iron stand or support. I show this stand in one position, i. c. with one face up in Fig. 4 and with the other face up in Fig.

7. The upper. shelf or platform 11, in Fig.

. 4, is provided with openings for the standards 6, while the lower one 12, is imperforate at least at corresponding points and forms the actual supportfor said standards 6 and for the iron and objects thereon. When the device is used for heating a curling iron,

the shelf 12 should'be uppermost as seen in Fig. 7. I show on said upper and lower shelves bosses or projections a to support the hot iron out of contact with the cooling metal of the shelves or platforms.

The standards or legs 6 are intended to be used with the flat iron only when the handle 24 is retained in connection with the flat iron: The standards 6 are adapted to be connected with the members 11 and 12 by inserting the lower" ends of said standards through apertures providedtherefor in said members 11. These legs 6' restupon the imperforate shelf 12 as indicated in Fig.6. I, however, preferably locate the brackets 6 lengthwise of the flat iron and members 11 and 12 instead of transversely, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Fig. 7 represents the ironl supported directly upon the upper member, and the upper member is provided with a longitudinal depression or recess 25 for the reception of a curling iron 26 whi'ch is adapted to beinserted in said recess, as shown in said Fig. 7, when the lower surface of said fiat iron 1 is adapted to rest upon the upper side of said curling iron.

. It will, of course, be understood that when. the flat iron 1 is used for heating curling irons or other similar device thestandards 6 and 6' are dispensed with and the flat iron is supported directly from said upper member. I have shown the sad iron supported from a suitable base by a skeleton frame which frame comprises a plurality of brackets 6 and 6', platforms 11, and a plurality of members 23, which platforms are interthe lower plate may be used as a stand for the iron. I have thus devised a stand or support which may be readily attached or clamped to an electric iron, forming an electric stove and its stand which constitute a unitary article movable as a whole, and one in which the support may be used separately as a stand for the iron when the latter is used for ironingfthe'stand in either case being supplied with suitable feet.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z' 1. In a support for a heating device, the combination with a plurality of parallel plates; of side members connecting said plates and projecting outwardly therefrom forming two similar sets of feet projecting in opposite directions, whereby said support may be reversed. i

2. In a support for a heating device, the combination with a plurality of parallel plates; side members connecting said plates and projecting outwardly therefrom forming two'similar sets of feet projecting in opposite directions, whereby said support may be reversed; one of said plates being pro vided with a longitudinal depression adapted to receive a curling iron.

3. In a support fora heating device, the combination of three parallel plates; angle pieces extending from the intermediate plate around each of-the other two'plates to form two sets of feet extending in opposite directions; and clips embracing edge portions of said intermediate plate and secured to said angle pieces.

4; In a support combination of three parallel plates, consisting of two outer plates andan intermediate plate; two sets of angle-pieces, one set extending from the intermediate plate toward one of said outer plates and engaging the under surface thereof and extending around the" edge portions upon opposite sides and beyond same to form a set of feet; the second set similarly extending from the opposite side of the intermediate plate around the other outer plate and beyond same to form a second set of feet; and clips embracing opposite edge portions of said intermediate plate and connected with said angle pieces.

5. In a support for a heating device, the combination of a plurality of parallel plates; of side members forming feet and suitably connecting said plates with each other to form a permanent structure, part of said ,plates being provided with apertures; anda plurality of removable supporting members adapted to pass through said apertures and have their lower ends rest upon the lowermost plate, the upper part of these supporting members beingadapted to receive a heating iron-body in reverse position.

'6. In a support for a heating device, the combination of a plurality of parallel plates; of side members forming feet and suitably connecting 1 said plates with each other to for a heating device, the

with a central projection.

form a permanent structure, part of said plates being provided with apertures; and a plurality of removable supporting-members adapted to pass through said apertures and have their lower ends rest upon the lowermost plate, the upper portion of each of these supporting members": being provided 7. In a support for a heating device, the combination of a plurality of parallel plates suitably secured to each other to 'form a permanent structure; side members forming feet for said lates partof said plates being provided Wit apertures; a plurality of removable supporting members adapted to pass through said apertures and to have their lower ends rest upon the lowermost of said plates; all of said plates being provided with a central opening, all of these openings being in vertical alinement with each.

other; and a connecting member adapted to pass'through these last-named openings and having an upper female thread adapted to engage the central stud of the body of an electric heatin iron.

8 A reversi le stand. for an electrically heated iron, said stand being provided when in one position with openings in which supports to hold the iron on the stand for cooklng may engage, and said stand being also provided with a depression in which when the stand is in the reverse position, an article may be placed to be heated by the iron resting directly upon the stand.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES T. JOHNSON. Witnesses: r

S. L. HOLMES, A. V. LIND. 

